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Cheaper, smaller, no batteries required:

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But make sure you get your flat tire on a smooth, dry, level stretch of road where the car won't roll off a spindly, little jack.

And you do carry a plastic trash bag for wrapping the full-sized road wheel you'll be taking off, right? Which will only fit in the back seat.

If the top is down.

On second thought, maybe this is the way to go:

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DannyP posted:

Not to rain on your parade Marty, but I used to carry a spare, a small scissor jack and a 1/2" breaker bar and a 19mm socket.

But with the new car, I'm with Jim above. I have Hagerty insurance and they'll tow 25 miles for free, and you can add coverage for long distance from home as well. Fix a flat it is.

That's how I roll now too Danny.  Was Just curious.  

Sacto Mitch posted:

 

Cheaper, smaller, no batteries required:

RoadsideRepair01RoadsideRepair02

But make sure you get your flat tire on a smooth, dry, level stretch of road where the car won't roll off a spindly, little jack.

And you do carry a plastic trash bag for wrapping the full-sized road wheel you'll be taking off, right? Which will only fit in the back seat.

If the top is down.

On second thought, maybe this is the way to go:

RoadsideRepair06

 

Mitch, I should have been more clear.  I was thinking of the Alfa too which has a full size spare.  A back up could be the lug wrench and a small siccer jack if the AAA people take forever to show.  The IM-forget about it,  fix a flat is the only option.  

 

 

 

That was my problem once I added the heater - no space for either the diminutive spare nor the electric scissor jack I bought long ago for another car.  Ended up with my trusty Armstrong scissor jack behind my seat plus a tiny 12V compressor and a set of plugs in the Frunk.   If that doesn't get me going again, then it's the AAA card route.

I suppose that the pump is small enough that I can relax and watch the traffic as I wait for the tire to inflate.  Now, if I only had a 12 volt Keurig.....

I use a 928 jack. It is compact and lightweight. I mounted two aluminum plates under the car with holes to fit the bump on the top of the jack. One aluminum plate is under the frame upright in front of the door and the other is just in front of the rear wheel.  

The jack easily fits in the Carlisle tool bag. In the bag, I also have a 1/2" drive ratchet with an extendible handle instead of an X-shaped lug wrench.

Michael McKelvey posted:

I use a 928 jack. It is compact and lightweight. I mounted two aluminum plates under the car with holes to fit the bump on the top of the jack. One aluminum plate is under the frame upright in front of the door and the other is just in front of the rear wheel.  

The jack easily fits in the Carlisle tool bag. In the bag, I also have a 1/2" drive ratchet with an extendible handle instead of an X-shaped lug wrench.

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FWIW, as to flats, not coffee, I do carry a small bottle jack, and an actual Porsche lug wrench -- a crank handle sort of thing.  AND a can of fix-a-flat, AND the AAA card So far no wear on any of these.  At Carlisle last year, was in need of a clutch cable adjustment, and so needed a jack and tire removal.  Was so happy to have dry weather and the Drayer mobile tool unit on hand for that one.

As to coffee, I grind at home, will drink about anything on the road except whatever they provide in motel rooms.  Just wont go there.

"Starbucks over roasts cheap beans, then passes it off as premium stuff."

Boy, ain't THAT the truth - it always tastes burnt.  I usually stick with Dunkies (starting to rename them "Dunkin" up here - I wonder if that will stick?) but we used to get coffee beans shipped in to Engineering where I worked, from Turkey, Israel and Puerto Rico.  The PR stuff was Yaucono and we did it like Expresso.  It is naturally slightly sweet and at 10 am in an expresso cup would blow your socks off.  Now, 20 years later, I don't think my heart could stand a double.

Call me a Cretan, etc., but FWIW: I really, really (really) like “overroasted” arabica beans. The rest of the world just calls dark-roasted beans "coffee". Coffee as a "thing" came to us via the cafes of Italy and France-- places that brew, press, or pump coffee roasted almost black.

Back in the Folger's day, coffee in America was all medium roasted and percolated in various strengths depending on whether or not the people partaking really liked coffee or not.  

It’s a uniquely upper-middle-class domestic thing to buy expensive beans, barely roast them, drip brew, then add a half-pint of whipped half-and-half, 3 teaspoons of sugar, top it with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles, then put it in a 44 oz paper cup (saving the earth, don’t you know) with a cardboard sleeve and a plastic cap, and tell the world how much you love coffee. It's vaguely coffee flavored candy in a cup.

Alternatively, this may be the only place on the planet where customers willingly pay 4 bucks for “blonde roast” coffee. In most other places, people just brew tea if that’s what they want.

Dark roasted is good. Darker is better. At my house, it’s the darkest roast I can get, double-shot through the Breville espresso machine.

Let the flagellations begin.  

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